page_title: Guitar Hero World Tour
section_title: Guitar and bass guitar
hierarchical_section_title: Guitar Hero World Tour / Gameplay / Instruments / Guitar and bass guitar
caption_attribution_description: English: PlayStation 3 Guitar Controller from Guitar Hero: World Tour
context_page_description: Guitar Hero World Tour is a music rhythm video game developed by Neversoft and published by Activision. It is the fourth main installment in the Guitar Hero series. The game was launched in North America in October 2008 for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Wii, and Xbox 360 consoles, and a month later for Europe and Australia. A version of World Tour for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X was later released by Aspyr.
  While the game continues to feature the use of a guitar-shaped controller to simulate the playing of rock music, Guitar Hero World Tour is the first game in the Guitar Hero series to feature drum and microphone controllers for percussion and vocal parts, similar in manner to the competing Rock Band series of games. The game allows users to create new songs through the "Music Studio" mode, which can then be uploaded and shared through a service known as "GHTunes".
  World Tour received generally positive reviews, with critics responding positively to the quality of the instrument controllers, the customization abilities, and improvements in the game's difficulty compared with the previous Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock.
context_section_description: RedOctane developed a new guitar controller for World Tour.  The unit is approximately 25% larger than previous controllers, making it closer to the size of a real guitar.  The new controller includes a longer whammy bar and places the Star Power button directly below the strum bar, improving the access of these features.  The strum bar itself was made quieter and longer.  The neck of the guitar is detachable, similar to the Gibson Les Paul controller for Guitar Hero III, but the connector has been hardened to avoid connection issues experienced with the previous unit.  The neck of the guitar features a touch-sensitive pad just toward the body end from the normal five fret buttons.  The player can use either the fret buttons or the touch pad to play regular notes.  The pad also allows the player to play notes via tapping or via "tap strumming" similar to the slap bass method for bass guitar, and to alter the pitch of sustained notes.  Guitar tracks feature notes connected by a semi-transparent purple line, (except for the Wii and PlayStation 2 version, in which semi-transparent gems replace this purple line) called "Slider Gems"; the player can play these notes by sliding their fingers up and down the touch pad or by tapping the fret buttons without strumming.  The touchpad can also be used for sustained and staccato notes in the music studio feature while recording guitar, and is used for finer control over loops when recording other instruments.
caption: PS3 version of the Guitar Hero World Tour controller
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